.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 246 119
Rank change year-on-year -57 -127 +12
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 355 578 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.21% 2.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.59% 5.60% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 328 405 1,375
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,250 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,348 10,322 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.72% 21.64% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,850 6,056 11,263
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,856
% change year-on-year - +1.79% -5.40%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +14 104 £75,000 +7.14% 57
North of England -33 102 £55,000 - 59
North West +6 65 £55,000 -3.30% 39
South East -37 51 £60,000 +11.11% 64
Midlands -8 47 £65,000 +23.81% 23
East Midlands -6 37 £65,000 +26.83% 15
South West +13 32 £52,500 -23.64% 17
Yorkshire -46 23 £40,000 -20.00% 11
North East -2 14 £55,000 +22.22% 9
East of England -18 13 £60,000 +20.00% 20
West Midlands -9 10 £45,000 -14.29% 8
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.41%) Confluence
1 5 (1.41%) IIS
2 2 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Kentico
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 227 (63.94%) Azure
2 91 (25.63%) AWS
3 58 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (11.83%) Serverless
5 31 (8.73%) GitHub
6 21 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.92%) SaaS
7 18 (5.07%) Power Platform
8 16 (4.51%) Azure Functions
9 15 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (3.94%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.94%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (3.66%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.66%) Azure App Service
12 11 (3.10%) Azure AKS
12 11 (3.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (35.49%) SQL Server
2 44 (12.39%) MongoDB
3 41 (11.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (9.30%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.23%) MySQL
8 13 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.38%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.54%) Power BI
11 6 (1.69%) Redis
12 5 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.85%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
16 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (14.93%) Git
2 14 (3.94%) Visual Studio
3 11 (3.10%) JIRA
4 7 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.13%) MSTest
5 4 (1.13%) NUnit
6 3 (0.85%) GitLab
6 3 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.85%) Postman
6 3 (0.85%) Selenium
6 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.28%) Vite
8 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 40 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.99%) Finance
3 16 (4.51%) Law
4 11 (3.10%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.82%) Games
6 9 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.25%) Legal
7 8 (2.25%) Retail
8 7 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.41%) Advertising
10 4 (1.13%) Front Office
11 3 (0.85%) Back Office
11 3 (0.85%) Banking
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
11 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Local Government
12 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.28%) Automotive
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (73.24%) Developer
2 134 (37.75%) .NET Developer
3 89 (25.07%) Senior
4 84 (23.66%) Software Developer
5 65 (18.31%) C# Developer
6 59 (16.62%) Senior Developer
7 47 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 42 (11.83%) Lead
8 42 (11.83%) Software Engineer
9 33 (9.30%) C# .NET Developer
10 24 (6.76%) Lead Developer
10 24 (6.76%) Senior .NET Developer
11 22 (6.20%) .NET Software Engineer
11 22 (6.20%) Azure Developer
11 22 (6.20%) React Developer
12 21 (5.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 21 (5.92%) Senior C# Developer
13 20 (5.63%) Senior Software Developer
13 20 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (5.35%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (100.00%) .NET
2 138 (38.87%) ASP.NET
3 108 (30.42%) React
4 85 (23.94%) .NET Framework
5 76 (21.41%) AngularJS
6 66 (18.59%) RESTful
7 59 (16.62%) HTML
8 53 (14.93%) CSS
8 53 (14.93%) Entity Framework
9 51 (14.37%) ASP.NET MVC
10 50 (14.08%) Blazor
11 44 (12.39%) ASP.NET Web API
12 38 (10.70%) ASP.NET Core
12 38 (10.70%) Vue
13 33 (9.30%) Node.js
14 26 (7.32%) HTML5
15 25 (7.04%) REST
16 16 (4.51%) CSS3
17 13 (3.66%) AWS CDK
17 13 (3.66%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.38%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (1.69%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (1.69%) Digital TV
5 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.41%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.41%) Sports Betting
7 4 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.85%) Windows
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.56%) VMS
3 1 (0.28%) Android
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (40.85%) Agile
2 136 (38.31%) Full-Stack Development
3 111 (31.27%) CI/CD
4 108 (30.42%) Microservices
5 92 (25.92%) Software Engineering
6 88 (24.79%) DevOps
7 72 (20.28%) MVC
8 53 (14.93%) Containerisation
9 46 (12.96%) Clean Code
9 46 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (11.83%) SDLC
11 39 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (10.70%) Scrum
13 34 (9.58%) TDD
14 32 (9.01%) Mentoring
15 31 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (8.45%) AI
17 29 (8.17%) OO
18 27 (7.61%) Collaborative Culture
19 22 (6.20%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 306 (86.20%) C#
2 148 (41.69%) SQL
3 127 (35.77%) JavaScript
4 57 (16.06%) TypeScript
5 22 (6.20%) Python
6 10 (2.82%) Rust
6 10 (2.82%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.25%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.69%) Bicep
9 3 (0.85%) Bash
9 3 (0.85%) Erlang
9 3 (0.85%) Java
9 3 (0.85%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.56%) XAML
11 1 (0.28%) C++
11 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (9.30%) Degree
2 12 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.10%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.07%) QA
2 9 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.97%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 75 (21.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.14%) Terraform
3 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 105 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.41%) Facebook
2 5 (1.41%) YouTube
3 4 (1.13%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.13%) Google
4 3 (0.85%) Databricks
5 2 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.56%) Foundry
5 2 (0.56%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle
6 1 (0.28%) IBM
6 1 (0.28%) IONA
6 1 (0.28%) Okta
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow